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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2021 MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM
Marshall Announces Booster Administration Plan By CARTER TRUMAN NEWS EDITOR
Marshall University is partnering with Cabell-Huntington Health Department to administer Covid vaccine boosters on campus. Marshall announced in an email that the university would be providing booster shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson to students and faculty. The email was sent out on Oct. 22 and contained information about who was eligible for the boosters and when they could receive them. In the announcement, Marshall said the university would start administering booster shots on Oct. 26 in Room BE-5 of the Memorial Student Center. Some students have expressed unease about the booster shots. “I feel pretty nervous about the whole booster shots,” said Marshall student Isabella Parsons. “They kind of promised us ‘Do this, and it will be over,’ but then they just keep coming out with more things.” Parsons said that she feels hesitant about the idea of a booster, although she has already received the Covid vaccine. Other students say they will have to wait until they have
learned more about the boosters before deciding to take them. “I’ve not done enough research to see, ‘oh, well we don’t really need a booster’ or if it’s necessary,” said Marshall student Quinton Bogner. “I’m not the person who agrees with the government on everything.” The announcement also mentioned Marshall’s partnering with Cabell-Huntington Health Department to provide students and faculty with the booster, which some students view positively. “I support it,” said Parsons. “They’re wanting tohelp students come to school without masks, without all these regulations. And if that means working with the Health Department and the hospitals to get all these boosters out, I support it.” Marshall, in a series of announcements, also said that the university would be reaching out, through email, to students and faculty who had previously received their initial vaccines on campus for them to schedule an appointment for the booster. Carter Truman, truman18@marshall.edu
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Brad Smith continued from front page By CONNER WOODRUFF REPORTER
In the resolution, Spoor said that during Smith’s time as the CEO of Intuit, the company made decisions to deliberately hide TurboTax’s free tax filing services from search engine results, deceptively encouraging users to pay for their services, despite possibly being eligible for free filing. “It’s actually an ideological difference of opinion between a group of people thinking the tax system should operate one way and then Intuit and many others who think it should operate a different way,” Smith said. “I am very proud of Intuit.” “I should have discussed the situation more with my peers to gain their support, as well as worked with the faculty senate,” Spoor said. “I have talked to many students, staff and faculty, and they have the same concerns that I do.” An online petition uploaded to change.org titled, “We do not want Brad Smith as our President at Marshall University,” was created by an anonymous user. The user shared other concerns regarding Smith’s candidacy in the petition’s description, stating that “As students,
want a President with a history and care in academics, not business.” “My intent is not to bring controversy to Marshall,” Smith said. “My intent is to help Marshall build on its great foundation and literally put us in the international limelight where we have the ability to tap into all the relationships and all the experiences that I had the chance to benefit from around the world.” The Marshall University Board of Governors will formally vote on the next Marshall University president on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 28, with the new president being hosted in an event immediately following the announcement. Conner Woodruff, Woodruff9@marshall.edu
Brad Smith speaking at Marshall’s commencement address in 2014. Taken from braddsmith.com
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